Perry Zurn is Visiting Associate Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University, Provost Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University, author of
Not all our stories will be trans stories. Trans remains a contested term within and beyond its original Western context. Leslie Feinberg offered Transgender Warriors as “our-story.” But perhaps that book—and certainly this one—are better understood as simply part of our ourchive. An ourchive, Mount Holyoke faculty member Ren-yo Hwang writes, is “a self-reflexive, collective-collection of community-led knowledge that remains willfully open, without completion, a process.” If How We Make Each Other is meant to be anything, I mean it to be a contribution to an archive of gender disruption—an ourchive gender disruptors of all sorts can claim and contest, resonate with, resist, and remake.
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